You should be using a tax_query for this operation. The category parameters won’t work with custom taxonomies Instead of ‘category’ => $catID, use ‘tax_query’ => array( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘series’, ‘field’ => ‘term_id’, ‘terms’ => $catID, ‘include_children’ => false ), ),
Can someone please explain how “$posts” is used within the loop? It isn’t. It returns the array of queried posts , but it is insignificant and not used at all: if you remove it than the code works the same: global $query_string; query_posts($query_string.’&cat=-9′); if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); … endwhile; endif; This is … Read more
You can do this with Sticky Posts feature in WordPress. When you make a post sticky, it shows up above your new posts. As name suggests, that particular post will stick at top, first in the row for as long as you want. Sticky Posts is a feature introduced with Version 2.7. A check box … Read more
Instead of event date and event time, make the meta keys start time and end time and save them both as timestamps, then events will order correctly when sorted by start time key only.
Regions and cities fit perfectly in the concept of taxonomy: a way to group things (i.e. posts). And not so much in the concept of meta data. I strongly recommend to use custom taxonomies for that instead of custom meta fields. You will gain in performance and you will have a better data relationship management. … Read more
More complex way I use it this way (I’m usually doing one page design, however the method of loading pages is still same). Fo Theme options, I’m using Option tree plugin where my clients could just checkbox which pages should appear there (it’s passed by it’s ID) and than I load it into the script. … Read more
Based on the answer by @jan-becker I build this snippet. This works for me: /* * Get the next/prev image id inside c-tax: my_snapshot_position_ctax */ function my_return_relative_attachment_id( $this_post_ID, $prev = true ) { global $post; // overwrite global $post variable $post = get_post( $this_post_ID ); // filter sql query to work with attachment add_filter( ‘get_next_post_where’, … Read more
You can use WP_Object_Cache combined with a persistent cache plugin or you can use Transient API. WP_Object_Cache: // Random post link function randomPostlink(){ $cache = wp_cache_get( ‘random_tip_link’ ); if( $cache ) { echo $cache; } else { ob_start(); $RandPostQuery = new WP_Query(array(‘post_type’=>array(‘tip’),’posts_per_page’ => 1,’orderby’=>’rand’)); while ( $RandPostQuery->have_posts() ) { $RandPostQuery->the_post(); echo the_permalink(); } wp_reset_postdata(); $cache … Read more
You can store the counts as key and link a value and sort them before display like this : $sort_tab = array(); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail( array(40,40) ); } $url = get_the_permalink(); $json = file_get_contents( ‘https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT%20like_count,%20total_count,%20share_count,%20click_count,%20comment_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url%20=%20%27’ . $url . ‘%27’ ); $json_data = json_decode($json, false); $sort_tab[$json_data->data[0]->total_count] = $url; endwhile; … Read more
The WP_Query documentation on the codex specifically says: ‘attachment’ – an attachment. Whilst the default WP_Query post_status is ‘publish’, attachments have a default post_status of ‘inherit’. This means no attachments will be returned unless you also explicitly set post_status to ‘inherit’ or ‘any’. I am not sure why it was working before because this is … Read more